Suzanne Vega - Feather And Bone lyrics

You said, come with me And so i did I thought i could take All your sorrow I thought i could hold it all I never imagined Your oceans So bitter The k**ing The falling The slaughter Of feather and bone. I sat, still In the five o'clock light The sun came in through the crack The floor to your room Was all splinters And, still, Some are remaining Through skin And through flesh Cutting in patterns Like diamonds Like needles Down to the bone. I had to know I had to see I can take it all But i will learn To be free I loved you More that you'll ever know Even through broken windows Through the blood as it Ran down your fist Even Though it was my life And my truth And my hope And my window gone. And now If you think i'm Coming back home First i should tell you a secret. I sleep with a sword near my hand Each night Sharpened with dreams Of your body Your murder Your blood As it runs down My street. (july 1981)